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Mothers should feast on fish?
A report says pregnant women can raise their child's IQ by eating fish.
Tracy Clark-Flory [2007-02-16]

  • Whatever

    I think IQ is a crap shoot, my mother rarely if ever ate fish and I have a fairly high IQ. I was always in the gifted and talented programs, accelerated through a few lower grades, school was always very easy for me. My two brothers on the other hand have average IQ's, everything I learned took them twice as long to learn it.

    So I see nothing wrong with eating fish from a fine sushi establishment or a high end grocery chain and also supplementing your diet with omega 3's in pill form if you want to try to up your fetus IQ, but I'm not fully convinced. I mean if fish were really the reason for high IQ's, wouldn't Japan be filled with geniuses? Or any other island where people get most of their protein from fish? Can it be shown that people like DaVinci, Newton, Einstein, Edison and other fantastically brilliant people, that their mothers ate a lot of fish?

    -- MMM sushi
    Friday, February 16, 2007 02:31 PM
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